We took a break from the serious adventure with Weamar, Marinae, Lynn, and Eliza, and did this one for fun. It's still in Ravenloft, but it starts out in Kansas in 2003. We play a group of young adults who used to play together as children in rural Kansas. We start out with a reunion of sorts, but one of our group is missing. Irene. She had disappeared ten years ago, mysteriously, when her family was traveling to Colorado. The authorities never found any bodies, nor the truck that Irene was riding in. They just found tire tracks leading into a field of grain. On the tenth anniversary of her disappearance Irene's old friends decide to go to where she disappeared and pay their respects, trying to find closure. That's when things start to get weird.

We had a lot of fun with this adventure. It's supposed to be for normal D&D characters but we play a bunch of young people from Kansas who suddenly end up in the D&D world.  So we're walking around in a vampire's castle with guns and stuff and making references to old movies. It's great. It's like, parts of it are serious and scary, and other parts of it are really funny. It keeps going back and forth, which is neat. The best part is the bickering between Richard (played by Jody) and Rebecca (played by me). We really get after each other, and some of the funniest lines come out of that. You'll see what I mean when you start reading it.

Chris ran the game at first and played Kevin, Ryan, Travis and all the other characters. About halfway through he got burned out and I volunteered to finish things up. I've never run a game before and I didn't know what I was doing, but Chris gave me a lot of help and everything turned out great. When I took over Chris started playing Kevin, the priest-to-be who doubts his faith. He did a great job. Martin played Anthony, completing the circle of friends.

And yes, this is an "adult" kind of adventure, but there isn't as much sex and violence in it as there is in the other adventures on my site. So I'm going to give it a PG-13 rating. I hope that you enjoy reading it as much as we did playing it.

Mile Marker Thirteen

Chapter	Plot
1 Mile marker thirteen	The journey begins
2 Over the Rainbow	The group isn't in Kansas anymore
3 The Gypsy	Fortunes are told
4 A Spark of Hope	In a bleak, tormented town, the group finds a reason to hope
5 Ireena	They find their lost friend, but not as they once knew her
6 Castle Ravenloft	Onward and upward to the castle on a cliff
7 The King's Throne	Travis discovers his gift
8 The Living Tower	All goes awry
9 The Coven	The group confronts some of the castle's denizens
10 The Tome of Strahd	Ryan finds a very valuable book
11 Chains	Something is lurking in the catacombs
12 Dusk	The group confronts Strahd
13 Strahd's Champion	A fierce battle with a spiritual foe
14 Dinner with Tatyana	The truth is revealed
15 Ryan's Bargain	Ryan makes a deal with a vampiress
16 Blood feud	Chavese and Giselle battle over the sword
17 Here Comes the Bride	Strahd crashes the wedding
18 Oh Ricky!	The battle with Strahd concludes